Is Guilt Killing the West from Within?

07/01/2018

When
Christians in Iraq were exiled, murdered or persecuted en masse by the
so-called Islamic State, the West stood silent -- as if these Christians were
the agents of the Western colonialism and not the legitimate
and oldest inhabitants of the Middle East long before the Arabs converted to
Islam. When a mob destroyed the French Institute in Cairo, burning books and collections,
those who now want to return the "colonial artifacts" stood silent.
When Iran's President Rouhani visited Rome, the Italian authorities covered the naked statues in the Capitoline Museums. Are
we covering our own culture to please the Islamic world?